cave-earth is a very thick sheet of crystalline stalag- 

 mite, under this an older cave-earth, to which the name 

 of breccia is given, containing remains almost exclu- 

 sively of bears, and no trace of hyajnas. In this 

 pre-hy#nine breccia undoubted flint implements were 

 found ; but these, comparatively rude, massive, and 

 unsymmetrical in shape, were not accompanied by any 

 other indication of man. They prove man dwelt in 

 Devonshire ; but, judging from these industrial remains, 

 he was of a far lower type than his descendants of the 

 cave-earth. In all, the remains of 24 genera, com- 

 prising 30 species of animals, are recorded as having 

 been found duriug the exploration of Kent's Cavern by 

 the Committee of the British Association. The 16 

 species belonging to 12 genera, presented to the 

 Town Museum.are marked with an asterisk in the follow- 

 ing complete list of the fauna of this historical cave. 



Sabre-toothed Tiger (Machcerodics lalidens). 

 Lion (tells spotlota). 

 Wild Cat (Fells catus). 

 Lynx (Felis lynx). 



* Hyama (H. spelcea). 



* Wolf (Canis tuputy 



* Fox (Canii vutpes), 



" (Canis isatis). 

 Glutton (Gulo tuscus). 



* Badger (Metes taxus). 



* Cave Bear (Ursus spelceus). 



* Grizzly Bear (Ursus ferox). 



* Brown Bear ( Ursus arctot). 



* Mammoth (Elephas primigenius), 



* Rhinoceros (R. tidtorMnus), 

 Hog (Sus scrofa). 



* Horse (Equus fossilis). 



* Wild Bull (Bos primigenius). 

 Bison (B. priscus). 

 Long-fronted Ox (B. tongifrons). 



* Irish Elk, Cervus (Megaceros) hibernicus. 



* Ked Deer (C. elephus). 



* Keindeer (C. tarandus). 

 Sheep or Goat. 



* Hare (Lepus limidus). 



Tailless Hare, cave pika, (lagomy's spelaus). 

 Water Vole (Arvicota amphibia). 

 Field Vole (A. agrestis). 

 Bank Vole (A. pratensis). 



* Heaver (Castor fiber). 



Only eleven species out of this list are now living 

 in Britain, namely, wild cat, water vole, field vole, bank 

 vole, and hare. The badger is nearly extinct ; the fox 

 and red deer are protected; while the hog and the 

 horse, the sheep and the goat, live under domestication. 

 The lynx occurs in Europe and northern Asia, and the 

 wolf and the brown bear in Europe and most parts of the 

 world . The glutton now dwells in the northern regions 

 of the old and the new world, and the bison, 

 protected in Moldavia Wallachia, and the Caucasus, 

 roams wild in North America. The reindeer 

 is confined to the arctic circle, and this species of tail- 

 less hare to Siberia. The beaver inhabits parts of 

 central and northern Europe and America. The lion 

 reigns supreme in Africa and Persia. The spotted 

 hyasna is found in Africa, south of the desert, while 

 the grizzly bear ranges from North America to Mexico, 

 and the rhinoceros, numerously represented in Kent's 

 Cavern by the extinct woolly species, B. tickorinus, 

 now lives in Africa, India, and the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. The six remaining species, namely, the 

 the sabre-toothed, tiger, cave bear, the great Irish elk, 

 the wild bull, the long fronted ox, and that 

 huge primeval elephant the Mammoth (Elephas 

 primigenius) are all numbered with the extinct animals. 

 But all these animals were not contemporaneous, for 

 climatic reasons, to cite the reindeer, the hyrena, and 

 the bovine species as examples. Others, of course, did 

 not live in the Cave at all. The bears, it is believed, 



